Course Literature (Reading List)

From Popular Culture to Fiction-Based Religion (GRK36J)

Literature

• Baldwin, C., & Ripley, L. (2020). Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires. Qualitative Sociology Review, 16(3), 8-26. DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.16.3.02

  Reading instructions:18 pages
  Journal
• Cassaniti, J. L., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2014). The Cultural Kindling of Spiritual Experiences. Current Anthropology, 55(S10), 333-343. DOI: 10.1086/677881

  Reading instructions:10 pages
  Journal
• Currans, E. (2024). Becoming Mermaid: Exploring Human and More-Than-Human Relationality. Disability Studies Quarterly, 43(2), 1-10. DOI: 10.18061/dsq.v43i2.8678

  Reading instructions:10 pages
  Journal
• Cusack, C., & Kosnáč, P. (Eds.). (2018). Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781315582283

  Reading instructions:Read selected parts, see instructions in the course manual. Read selected parts, see instructions in the course manual.
  Book / Anthology
• Davidsen, M. A. (2016). From Star Wars to Jediism: The Emergence of Fiction-based Religion. In E. van den Hemel, & A. Szafraniec (Ed.), Words: religious language matters (1st ed., pp. 376-389). New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN: 0823255565

  Reading instructions:13 pages
  Chapter in book
• Delano Robertson, V. L. (2014). Of ponies and men: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Brony fandom. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17, 21-37.

  Reading instructions:16 pages
  Journal
• Feldt, L. (2016). Contemporary fantasy fiction and representations of religion: playing with reality, myth and magic in His Dark Materials and Harry Potter. Religion, 46(4), 550-574.

  Reading instructions:14 pages
  Journal
• Kozák, J. A. (2023). Cosmic Prison Break: From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR CONTEMPORARY RELIGION, 5(1), 67-97. DOI: 10.14712/25704893.2023.4
  Journal
• Plante, C., Reysen, S., Adams, C., et al. (2023). Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom (1st ed.). Texas, US: Commerce.

  Reading instructions:Read selected parts, see instructions in the course manual.
  Book / Anthology
• Taira, T. (2013). The category of ‘invented religion’: A new opportunity for studying discourses on ‘religion’. Culture and Religion, 14(4), 477-493. DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2013.838799

  Reading instructions:16 pages
  Journal
• Veissiere, S. (2015). Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: The Hypnotic Nature of Human Sociality, Personhood, and Interphenomenology. In A. Raz, & M. Lifshitz (Ed.), Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes (1st ed., pp. 55-77). Oxfor: Oxford University Press.

  Reading instructions:20 pages
  Chapter in book
• Visuri, I. (2020). A Room of One’s Own. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 5(1), 100-124. DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.37518

  Reading instructions:24 pages
  Journal
• Wiktorin, P. (2011). Religion och populärkultur: från Harry Potter till Left Behind. Lund: Sekel. (1st ed.). Lund: Sekel.

  Reading instructions:Read selected parts, see instructions in the course manual.
  Book / Anthology